Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> I just wanted to mention that while I find OpenSolaris very
> attractive for everyday use I am still surprised that many technologies from 
> the BSDs have not been considered by Solaris for inclusion, especially when 
> the tough work is done already and the license was thought to permit wide 
> adoption.
> 
> Here are the descriptions for a couple of such tools from
> FreeBSD:
> 
> IPFW (recently ported to linux too)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipfirewall

OpenSolaris uses (and comes with) IPFilter rather than IPFW.  If you
really do need IPFW, then it sounds like you'll want to launch a project
to port it over.

> Netgraph:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/netgraph.html

That looks like a relatively large porting project to me.

However, there are several technologies built into OpenSolaris that
perform the functions that would otherwise be served by netgraph, so
it's possible that the problem you need to solve is already workable on
OpenSolaris without having to port netgraph.  See, for instance, the
"create-simnet" feature in dladm.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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